Willpower is not some mythical force that we either have or don't have. Willpower is our decision to use higher mind thinking instead of lazing around in the clutches of our primal mind.

blackmail. The age-old path to the land of milk and honey. The one sure way of being paid for doing nothing.

With the possible exception of having more pleasing lines to the eye while in flight, the monoplane possesses no material advantage over the biplane.

It is not a bad sport, but there's no place to go.

there were people who occupied telephone booths as though they had rented them for the day.

Depression is a choice.

who was the cynic who had defined gratitude as thanks for favors to come?

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Your assignment is a pre-cursor to someone else’s assignment. In the same breath, someone else’s assignment is a pre-cursor to yours.

In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.

I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

Try to keep them, poet, those erotic visions of yours, however few of them there are that can be stilled. Put them, half-hidden, in your lines.

Trust me, Yorkies leave paw prints on your heart.

But O yet more miserable! Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave.

I'm just like every other girl who likes to shop, likes to look good, likes to spend time with friends.

Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness.

Nature is imperfectly perfect, filled with loose parts and possibilities, with mud and dust, nettles and sky, transcendent hands-on moments and skinned knees.